France

INED - Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques

The Institut National d’Études Démographiques is a public
research centre established in 1945. INED is a multi-disciplinary
institute devoted to population studies. INED has conducted a long
list of large-scale surveys (more than 15 surveys since 2000); it
has developed strong skills in data collection with vulnerable
population groups, such as migrants and homeless people; it has
acquired specific expertise in event history surveys; and it has a
great deal of international collaboration experience in Africa and
in Europe. The MAFE project takes place within the activities of
the joint research unit CEPED
(Centre Population et Développement) .

The Tasks

INED is responsible for the general coordination of the MAFE
project. It will lead WP2 on the survey methodology, taking
advantage of its previous experience of the MAFE-Senegal survey
conducted in 2007 on Senegalese migration.

The Team

Cris Beauchemin, Geographer, PhD. Working for
many years on African migration, he has developed strong skills in
survey implementation and life event history analysis. His main
research interest lies with population and development, migration
and urbanisation in West Africa, and international migration. He is
the principal investigator of the MAFE-Senegal project, which
prefigures this European project.

Sorana Toma is a PhD Candidate at Oxford
University and a former Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher at
FIERI. She is currently hosted at INED. Her thesis focuses on the
role of social networks in international migration between Senegal
and Europe, using the MAFE dataset. For her Master thesis, she
studied the school-to-work transitions of second generation
immigrants in France, using quantitative longitudinal data.